Dallas' not so secret racist history
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I'm sure EVERYBODY would be surprised by the racial history of their city if they looked into it 
It's a hood down here called Bonton, I never knew til a few years ago they used to call that shyt "Bomb Town" cuz the klan was legit bombing homes in the 40s and 50s. And I only learned that cuz a doc came out about it.
It's a hood down here called Bonton, I never knew til a few years ago they used to call that shyt "Bomb Town" cuz the klan was legit bombing homes in the 40s and 50s. And I only learned that cuz a doc came out about it.Yeah, I got a friend who's cousin lives up there (Boston) and they went to a ballet recital or some shyt and nobody would sit on the same row with them. They had the whole row to themselvesI've always felt Boston was high keyI never really desired visiting it.
Oddly enough I've been to Salt Lake City which is nothing BUT white and I actually felt pretty comfortable the times I've went. I thought it would be somewhat racist but my experiences have been the total opposite.
IsThatBrothaMouzone?
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Yeah Dallas has a pretty rough past but I'm not sure why people act like this is a surprise. It's the belt buckle of the Bible Belt....of course it's gonna have a racist past.
Only thing that makes it tricky here is that very few people have deep Dallas roots. I was born and raised here but represent the first generation of my family (me, siblings and cousins born in the 70's and 80's) born here. All of our parents, aunts, uncles etc., were from small-town East Texas and Louisiana. Most blacks born in Dallas that I know personally have similar stories. Shyt at work, I'm dang near the only native Dallasite out of 60 people in my department. Everyone else was either born in another part of the state, out of state or immigrated here as children.
History exists here and a lot of it was pretty bad....but there aren't many people really tied to it. Besides, you can say this kind of stuff about any city in the country...especially big cities in the South.
IsThatBrothaMouzone?
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Good points.
Black culture isn't as strong here, but neither is white or Latino culture (Dallas proper, not the burbs). Dallas' main "thing" is trying to always make everything shiny and brand new. It's the biggest negative of my city. We don't carry tradition and culture from the past and it shows. The flip side is that it makes the city dynamic and adaptable.
Main thing is that very few people living in Dallas are actually from Dallas in the first place. A lot of people from the west coast, east coast and midwest bring their shyt here. I can tell right away when a cac is from Dallas and when they're a transplant. The natives don't really act funny around black people because if they're from Dallas proper, they probably went to school with a bunch of black/brown people. If they're from the suburbs or especially from out of state, they immediately move to the far north 'burbs, buy an oversized house and vote Republican on everything. They'll have an attitude like shyt belongs to them when they JUST got here five minutes ago. Main ones tryna act like rednecks and don't even know the difference between grits and oatmeal.
IsThatBrothaMouzone?
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BBQ is no joke.....that's something Dallas is missing.
I think it's because so many people that move here have an affinity for Austin/Central Texas (or they went to UT for school). Central TX BBQ is everywhere and people go crazy over some brisket. None of these hipster BBQ cac joints (looking at you Pecan Lodge) would even know what a hot link basket is. The 'que is still good, but they definitely over-value the Czech/Polish/German contribution to the meat game. I want sweet potato pie, bbq hot links and chopped beef, mustard potato salad, greens, okra etc. Gotdamn we need more joints....
Bruh, you know what you talkin bout on this Q shyt. Chopped beef sandwiches, collard greens, dirty rice, baked bean sides, with the slice of bread.Even them white/central TX/austin style bbq joints in Houston be jockin our recipes by lathering their shyt with bbq sauce, using chopped poke(pork) ribs, and adding all them sides, with the sliced bread. smh And they still be mostly neglecting the pork, and even they beef is different than ours, cuz they use brisket and we chop our beef.
Furthermore, most people don't know that "East TX" Bbq ain't one style of bbq. It's just a collection of all "black styles" descendant from styles brought from other southern states during the domestic slave trade and reconstruction era western exodus.
For instance there's a difference between Northeast TX bbq and Southeast TX bbq. Southeast Texas(Houston, Beaumont, Port Arthur, Orange) bbq is HEAVILY influenced by gulf coast Louisiana creole cuisine in it's use of smoked boudain, grease-beef balls, muddy-water sausage(Houston specific), smoke crabs(beaumount specific) and other seafoods.
Apparently Dallas and Tyler Texas were the centers of northeast TX que. But, nowadays Tyler is the only place you can get authentic NETX Q.
This shyt is so ingrained in the culture it's not uncommon to see the que guys standing standing outside of black clubs with they pits in the back of they trucks serving people coming out or at parades and shyt.
Real que ain't something you gotta go to a fancy restaurant downtown to find if you really in the mix down here.
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calixprynce
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Lol We natives leave trickin at strip clubs and shyt to y'all OTers. We know where to really eat at.
lol nah nikka i done peeped game too . fyi I have NEVER been to a strip club in my life.. Am i slippin or what?
calixprynce
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This is Waco TX . Lynching of Jesse Washington
Red Shield
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the whole damn country is racist and this shyt happened in every state outside of Hawaii and maybe Alaska
Texas can't be worse than Mississippi or Louisiana.
MajesticLion
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I feel more at home in n.o than Dallas
sanityovar8ted
OG Moma Coli....dat bytch Thowd!!!
Ur welcome....i love DALLAS n never thought i would ever leave but i cant deny its past n when opportunity knocks u better answer